An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricC. Bell, 1837 - Всего страниц: 230 |
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... studied , and the chief faults which ought to be avoided ; and consequently tend to enlighten taste , and to con- duct genius from unnatural deviations into its proper channel . Though they are incapable of producing great INTRODUCTION .
... studied , and the chief faults which ought to be avoided ; and consequently tend to enlighten taste , and to con- duct genius from unnatural deviations into its proper channel . Though they are incapable of producing great INTRODUCTION .
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... faults are dis- covered , and the genuine taste of human nature is seen . Time overthrows the illusions of opinion , but esta- blishes the decisions of nature . What is TASTE ? Is it a faculty common to all ? How do the rudiments of ...
... faults are dis- covered , and the genuine taste of human nature is seen . Time overthrows the illusions of opinion , but esta- blishes the decisions of nature . What is TASTE ? Is it a faculty common to all ? How do the rudiments of ...
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... faults of those who have gone before him . No rules indeed can supply the de- fects of genius , or inspire it , where it is wanting ; but they may often guide it into its proper channel ; they may correct its extravagances , and teach ...
... faults of those who have gone before him . No rules indeed can supply the de- fects of genius , or inspire it , where it is wanting ; but they may often guide it into its proper channel ; they may correct its extravagances , and teach ...
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... clothe itself in a native majesty of language . The faults , opposite to the sublime , are principally two , the frigid and the bombast . The frigid consists in degrading an object or sentiment , which is sublime 30 Sublimity in Writing .
... clothe itself in a native majesty of language . The faults , opposite to the sublime , are principally two , the frigid and the bombast . The frigid consists in degrading an object or sentiment , which is sublime 30 Sublimity in Writing .
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... fault of writers ? In what does the sublime lie ? What are the faults opposite to the sublime ? In what does the frigid consist ? In what the bombast ? BEAUTY , AND OTHER PLEASURES OF TASTE . BEAUTY , Sublimity in Writing . 81.
... fault of writers ? In what does the sublime lie ? What are the faults opposite to the sublime ? In what does the frigid consist ? In what the bombast ? BEAUTY , AND OTHER PLEASURES OF TASTE . BEAUTY , Sublimity in Writing . 81.
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Стр. 185 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Стр. 88 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Стр. 114 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in 'a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Стр. 182 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Стр. 90 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Стр. 182 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Стр. 111 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination...
Стр. 185 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Стр. 174 - Saepibus in nostris parvam te roscida mala (dux ego vester eram) vidi cum matre legentem. alter ab undecimo tum me iam acceperat annus; iam fragilis poteram ab terra contingere ramos. 40 ut vidi ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error.
Стр. 186 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.